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Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Drawing on first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Louis Armstrong's early life and the social and musical forces in New Orleans that
Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: W. W. Norton
A rags-to-riches narrative of the eminent jazz artist's early life describes how his childhood was marked by such challenges as poverty, Jim Crow legislation, a
Language: en
Pages: 608
Pages: 608
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-03 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Da Capo Press
"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturd
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left
